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Authors generally roll their eyes when asked where they get their ideas.

Not because they’re annoyed, but because they don’t know. And I think being asked makes them (us) feel silly.

The recipe for a novel tends to read more like one for Grandma’s secret family meatballs, than one from a cookbook. It has a pinch of this and a dollop of that—all those measurements that aren’t really measurements. But I can tell you one or two things that always go into the soup.